Vista's registry virtualization

[Guest]

Hi,
I have different accounts (administrator, users and power user), so I can
not write into my Registry (HKLM) in the user mode. And I don't want to write
into HKCUser beacause is not accessible by other account.
I don't want to "Run as administator", but I want to write in the registry
in the zone accessible by the user accounts (like administrator or another
users).

What is the location shared by all account ?
Best Regards

 

[Jimmy Brush]

Hello,

There is not an area of the registry that is writable by all accounts. If
you require this, you will need to configure this manually: run regedit and
create a registry key inside of HKLM and change the permissions on this key
so that the users group has write access (right-click it and click
permissions).

 

[Guest]

Is it possible to configure the permissions inside the InstallShield
12 setup ?

OS & Driver Product Engineer

 

[Guest]

Thank for your reply,

Is it possible to configure the permissions inside the InstallShield 12
setup ?

Jean yves

 

[Steve]

Any installer runs with Admin privileges, so you can write to HKLM.

The simple rules are :

Write to HKLM at install
Read from HKLM at runtime
Read/Write to HKCU at runtime

As for your Q, "can you do this with installshield". I am sure you can, but
its been awhile since I have created an installer with install shield. You
may need to create your own custom action.

Steve